Which language family does Japanese belong to?
Ok it's Japonic but what about that one? What relationship does it have to other languages?
That's what we'll deal with in this video, the classification of the Japanese language / japonic languages.
Also we'll rank the theories on a tierlist because why not.
Historical Linguistics are fun.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:24 Koreanic
3:50 Altaic
8:23 Austronesian
10:34 Dravidian
11:45 Ainu
16:35 Eurasiatic
17:23 Nostratic
17:53 Sumerian
18:44 Papuan
20:39 Kartvelian + Final list
Music used (in order):
1. Chillpeach - Little break:
https://youtu.be/c5qY8215mGU?si=myQMD5hzAXae7fM0
2.
Colorful Flowers by Tokyo Music Walker
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3. DJ Quads - Blushes
4. LAKEY INSPIRED - Blue Boi
https://youtu.be/wAukvwLCVbM?si=XBTyynCGOaAINFTk
5. East View by Tokyo Music Walker
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6. Slowly by Tokyo Music Walker
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7. Purrple Cat - Warm Horizon
https://youtu.be/uPa-ItyRT6U?si=FAEZ7r62wlE7iEHq
Sources (in no particular order):
Many of the theories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_the_Japonic_languages?wprov=sfla1
Korean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Japanese_and_Korean?wprov=sfla1
Ainu
https://www.fluentin3months.com/ainu-language/
Dravidian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravido-Korean_languages?wprov=sfla1
Papuan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Papuan_languages?wprov=sfla1
https://youtu.be/fkhRuoJmSao?si=wH18AU95AQc4VFNd
Altaic and Austronesian:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=1626629&fileOId=1626632#:~:text=A%20hypothesis%20that%20Japanese%20is,an%20Altaic%20language%20took%20over.
"Japanese, Austronesian and Altaic"
"JAPANESE AS AN ALTAIC LANGUAGE: AN INVESTIGATION OF JAPANESE GENETIC AFFILIATION THROUGH BIOLOGICAL FINDINGS"
https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/WPLC/article/view/5163/2135#:~:text=These%20markers%20function%20as%20postpositions,sound%20correspondences%20to%20other%20Altaics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_peoples
Definitions:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/agglutinative
(https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199675128.001.0001/acref-9780199675128-e-3288#:~:text=A%20language%20spoken%20by%20a,a%20population%20subordinate%20to%20it.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhi?wprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_stem?wprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratum_%28linguistics%29#%3A%7E%3Atext%3Damong_other_guidelines.-%2CSuperstratum%2Cthe_influenced_language_a_substratum.?wprov=sfla1
(https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199675128.001.0001/acref-9780199675128-e-3288#:~:text=A%20language%20spoken%20by%20a,a%20population%20subordinate%20to%20it.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhi?wprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_stem?wprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratum_%28linguistics%29#%3A%7E%3Atext%3Damong_other_guidelines.-%2CSuperstratum%2Cthe_influenced_language_a_substratum.?wprov=sfla1
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